Tag: Land-Use

  • ‘The Most Beautiful Pearl in the Ugliest Shell’: Photo Essay

    By Jena Olson Students in The AjA Project’s PhotoCity program are constantly reflecting on how City Heights affects their lives as the youth of the community. They recently took a field trip around City Heights to photograph what they like and don’t like about their neighborhood and discuss how they would make things better if…

  • Car Eases Road to Degree for City Heights Teen

    Thousands of people in San Diego County are working and going to school, hoping that pursuing higher education will pay off in the future. KPBS education reporter Kyla Calvert brings us the story of one such student, whose particularly tough road to a degree just got easier. | Video Credit: Katie Euphrat By Kyla Calvert…

  • Engineer: Blame Mudstones for Shoddy Sidewalks

    By Liam Dillon The sidewalks in parts of mid-city never had a chance. That’s according to Leslie Reed, the founder of local engineering firm Geotechnical Exploration. More than two decades ago, he wrote a paper deeming the land in and around Normal Heights the worst surface to build on in San Diego. He called the…

  • Tweet City Heights: Back of the Visa Line

    By Megan Burks Checking in on The Stumblr Voice of San Diego continues to document San Diego’s crumbling sidewalks on its photo blog, The Stumblr. This week, Voice mapped the reader-submitted photos, which are clustered throughout mid-city San Diego. A significant number were taken in City Heights’ Corridor neighborhood. View Mapping The Stumblr in a…

  • Emerald Calls for a ‘Frank Discussion’ on Park Shortage

    By Megan Burks Council President Todd Gloria has convened a new committee on infrastructure. It held its first meeting Monday. Committee Chairman and District 5 Councilman Mark Kersey laid out his plans for the committee last week; they center on assessing the weight of our infrastructure problem first. In a memo, District 9 Councilwoman Marti…